Sobriety prayer2/10/2024 ![]() I feel ashamed that I have allowed things to get out of hand. It is harming my relationships, my job, my mental and physical health, and robbing my time and energy for engaging in activities I enjoy. Lord, my Stronghold, I’ve hit rock bottom, and I realize I need help with my addiction to alcohol. Help me to overcome the obstacle of denial, and be honest with myself and others. Help me make the changes I need, so I can begin walking down the road of recovery. Help me to find the support that I need, so I can recover from alcohol abuse. But I don’t know how – it just seems impossible. God of Wisdom, please help me! I’ve come to the end of myself, and know that I need to stop drinking. Here are 7 strong prayers for alcohol addiction that will encourage you to reach out to the Lord for relief and strength. Addiction attacks the spiritual state of one’s life, bringing temptation and weakness to the forefront. Search Recovery HQ, use the SAMHSA Behavioral Health Treatment Services Locator, or contact our dedicated team and we will help find the solution which best fits your needs.Battling with addiction is more than just an emotional battle. Whether you choose to go to a recovery meeting, listen to a recovery speaker, read recovery literature, do meditation, or use another recovery resource, taking this first step toward securing your recovery has begun. It’s important to know that you and your loved one are not alone in your fight to recover and prevent relapse. ![]() The Recovery HQ Team is here to help you! It ought to be followed by a good look at where we stand now, and a further look at what might happen in our lives were we able to move closer to the ideal we have been trying to glimpse." Set-Aside Prayerĭear God, please set aside anything I think I may know about myself, my disease, the Big Book, the 12 steps, the Program, the Fellowship, the people in it, all spiritual terms and especially you God So that I may have an open mind and a new experience with all these things. Once more we read our prayer, and again try to see what its inner essence is… “this much could be a fragment of what is called meditation, perhaps our very first attempt at a mood, a flier into the realm of spirit, if you like. “As beginners in meditation, we might now reread this prayer several times very slowly, savoring every word and trying to take in the deep meaning of each phrase and idea… We rest quietly with the thoughts of someone who knows, so that we may experience and learn…. It is by dying that one awakens to eternal life. Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort, than to be comforted.įor it is by self-forgetting that one finds. That where there is sadness, I may bring joy. That where there are shadows, I may bring light. That where there is despair, I may bring hope. That where there is doubt, I may bring faith. ![]() That where there is error, I may bring truth. That where there is discord, I may bring harmony. That where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness. That where there is hatred, I may bring love. "Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace! 99-101, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (Alcoholics Anonymous) Grant me strength, as I go out from here to do Your bidding. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you & my fellows. “My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good & bad. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. “God, I offer myself to Thee - to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. The Third-Step Prayer, p.63, Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference, thy will, not mine be done.” Serenity Prayer, p.41, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions Feel free to download a PDF version of the standard AA prayers here. The Serenity Prayer, Third Step Prayer, 7 th Step Prayer, 11 th Step prayer and Set Aside Prayer are standard AA prayers.
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